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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian, 1871: With Extracts From His Son's JournalMemoir - thereby simply recording such personal traits or family facts connected with my subject as dwelt on my Memory. Still, I am persuaded it had been far better if I had included my recollections of him among those of his contemporaries. But the truth is it was only under the shelter of his name that I should ever have presumed to publish any...

Excerpt from A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Vol. 1: Tragedian, With Extracts From His Son's JournalFew persons of matter-of-fact temperament know how difficult it is for the imaginative, how ever truthful in intention, to adhere rigidly to bald literality of narration. Any impartial and dispassionate observer, who has ever seen the experiment of Russian scandal, and witnessed the ludicrous discrepancies of statement which occur between twelv...

Excerpt from Last Leaves From the Journal of Julian Charles Young, A. M: Rector of Ilmington, WarwickshireThe friends who loved and valued him will understand how great an effort it has cost me to write even these poor lines. To their sympathy I commend the contents of this volume, relying on their reverence for his memory to forgive the imperfections which his own hand was not permitted to correct.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes ...

Excerpt from A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian, 1871, Vol. 2: With Extracts From His Son's Journal Now, in neither of these estimates is one farthing allowed for beer or animal food of any kind, for hat or cap, boots or shoes, stockings or socks, night-shirt or day shirt, coat, vest, trowsers, or those essentials of domestic life, needles and thread. Is it possible that the extra wages earned in harvest can defray the cost of these t...

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Excerpt from A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian, 1871: With Extracts From His Son's Journal I have been unaffectedly surprised and gratified by the reception this book has met with at the hands both of the Press and the Public. Tolerant as my critics have been of my negligences and ignorances, none of them can be more conscious of them than I am myself. It did not need their forbearance to quicken my own sense of the meagreness of the...

Excerpt from A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Vol. 1: Tragedian, With Extracts From His Son's Journal Few persons of matter-of-fact temperament know how difficult it is for the imaginative, how ever truthful in intention, to adhere rigidly to bald literality of narration. Any impartial and dispassionate observer, who has ever seen the experiment of Russian scandal, and witnessed the ludicrous discrepancies of statement which occur between twe...

Excerpt from A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian, 1871, Vol. 2: With Extracts From His Son's JournalNow, in neither of these estimates is one farthing allowed for beer or animal food of any kind, for hat or cap, boots or shoes, stockings or socks, night-shirt or day shirt, coat, vest, trowsers, or those essentials of domestic life, needles and thread. Is it possible that the extra wages earned in harvest can defray the cost of these thi...

Excerpt from Last Leaves From the Journal of Julian Charles Young, A. M: Rector of Ilmington, WarwickshireThe friends who loved and valued him will understand how great an effort it has cost me to write even these poor lines. To their sympathy I commend the contents of this volume, relying on their reverence for his memory to forgive the imperfections which his own hand was not permitted to correct.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes ...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.